Tag: ICC

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International Criminal Court

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2009-03-04 The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir's arrest on charges of crimes against humanity.
2008-07-14 In the Hague, the Netherlands, the International Criminal Court's (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo charged Sudan's president Omar Hassan al-Bashir with masterminding a campaign of genocide in Darfur, killing 35,000 people and persecuting 2.5 million refugees.

Moreno-Ocampo charged Bashir with three counts of genocide, five of crimes against humanity, including murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture and rape, and two of war crimes.
2008-07 The ICC -- ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo -- issued an arrest warrant against Omar al-Bashir, making him the third sitting head of state to be charged by an international court following Liberia's Charles Taylor and Yugoslavia's Slobodan Milosevic.

Moreno-Ocampo accused Bashir of orchestrating a campaign of genocide in Darfur, starting in 2003.

Bashir's government is blamed for playing a key planning role in the Darfur conflict, which has killed some 300,000 and displaced 2.5 million civilians over the past five years.
2007-11-22 The International Criminal Court ruled out canceling arrest warrants for Ugandan LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) commanders, saying the rebel leaders and not the warrants are the obstacle to peace.
2007-04-27 The ICC -- ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo -- issued two arrest warrants against Ahmed Harun, former Minister for the Interior and current Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, and Janjaweed militia leader Ali Kushayb.

Both men were charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes committed between August 2003 and March 2004.
2007-02-26 The United Nations international court of justice cleared Serbia of direct responsibility for genocide and complicity in genocide in Bosnia, in the 1992-1995 war.
2007-02-26 Serbia was guilty of failing to prevent the genocide of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995, the UN's international court of justice ruled.
2007-01 The Hague-based International Criminal Court decided there was enough evidence to put Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga on trial for recruitment and use of child soldiers, making his the first case to go before the new body.
2006-06 Charles Taylor was taken to the detention center of the International Criminal Court in Scheveningen in The Hague.

Taylor faces trial in the Netherlands court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for allegedly overseeing the murder, rape and mutilation of thousands of people during Sierra Leone's bloody 10-year civil war.
2005-06-06 The ICC announced the opening of an investigation into war crime suspects in Darfur despite Sudan's protest.

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